“We have received a letter from John and he says he wants to get married to a widow 34 years old! And he has stayed with her for 18 mo. past. Oh, dear, dear, all of one’s hopes to end in this disappointment. I was so mad at John for being so wicked that I wrote him an awful letter. I scolded him and called him all sorts of names and her too. I wonder what he will say to that? I almost hope he won’t take me at my word and write again but I am afraid not. Oh, but I was mad!”

Source:
Emma Eberlein Kriewaldt’s diaries, extract from entry for 16 December 1889, on pages 9-10 of the typed transcript produced by Ernie Kriewaldt.